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Goto the bathroom that is. Ive read some fluff and NEVER had the "random ork pulls down his pants and defecates on random SM chest" come up. How the hell do the Orks do this?!? I thank WARBOSS for having a similar thought about doing the business for the tau lol

Squig toilets.

Well, they are fungi. And they have a very adaptive and powerful digestion system. So I guess any leftover products are emitted through the skin or, in the unlikely event of bigger parts, vomited up. But I am no biologist, so I'm not sure if there are any sort of Real World fungi that have digestion. I think most just absorb what nutrients they need through their mycel.

They drop it anywhere, and the snots and grotscarry it to 'the Drops' This is a big stinking hole dug out not to far from the central plaza in the settlement. The squigs, living on the orks refuge, live there, and are cultivated by the snots.

Semi-related to pooping and other actions done by the genitals, why do Orks wear clothes other than for protection? Modesty?

Lastest ork codex, page 7 in the section about squigs.

Other equally sharp toothed squigs grow and breed in the sprawling cesspits of the ork settlements, lending an air of unpredictability and exitement to even the breifest trip to the drops

from this i presume orks have communal cesspits to gak in. squig infested cesspits.

Phloop wrote:Semi-related to pooping and other actions done by the genitals, why do Orks wear clothes other than for protection? Modesty?

Because a naked ork doezn't look too killy.

Thats true they dont. Nakie Orks as they are called, look silly not killy

True, they'd look silly to us, but I can't see why they themselves would think they look silly because they're naked...
The Kroot don't wear clothes, Tyranids don't either. If Orks are biological weapons that are rampaging around lookin' for a good fight, why would they care if anyone sees their butt?

I was painting my Boyz's pants the other day and I was having a good ol' think about it. My lady says that it's because they're looters and they'll use anything they find, even pants. But then I thought, if you look at their tanks and weapons that are pretty crude copies of the human races, that they were just emulating the Oomies by wearing pants...
And who makes the pants? The Mekboy? Grots? Themselves? Are they custom made for each Ork? Is the Warboss' pants made out of nicer material than that of the other Orks?
So. Many. Unanswerable, QUESTIONS! ARGH!

Why would you want to know?

Just interested in anything Orky, that's all. Besides, I can't be the only one who's thought about this...

It comes out as violence.

WTF?

I've wondered why orks wear clothes too. I can only assume that it's because all the other races that they rip their technology off do.
Maybe they think that clothes are part of what makes the other races succesful in battle and clothes are a status item with armoured clothes the best thing to have.

Orks wear clothes to get a 6+ armour save.
And they don't wear clothes for status, see below:

Oomans are pink and soft, not tough and green like da Boys. They'z all the same size too, so they'z always arguing about who's in charge, 'cos there's no way of telling 'cept fer badges an' ooniforms and fings. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fig is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it. Wot a lot of mukkin' about if yer asks me. An' while they'z all arguin' wiv each other over who's da boss, da Orks can clobber da lot.

Those aren't pants or shirts you see them wearing but actually a complex form of successful parasitic fungus that just look like clothes. Certain subtle enviromental conditions determine color.

Also Orks, like plants, process waste out into the air alongside their reproductive spores. They expel the waste gas and particulate out of small muscular sphincter pumps on their chest (which, coincidently, look just like nipples). This cycle ensures that the fledgling spores have ample fertilizer to ensure proper growth and development, even on harsher worlds.

The "cess pools" spoken of are from rotting squigs, grots and Orks that weren't tough enough to survive. These pools also help fertilize an area for reproduction.

The whole thing is called the "Orkoid Recycling Chloro-Carbon and Oxygen Cycle" or Orc-Coc. C'mon, this is textbook Imperial grade school learning. Did you guys get "left behind"?

Oh, so why do they have butt-cracks you ask? Well, duh, it allows the running motion of the hips to be more fluid.

GoFenris wrote:Those aren't pants or shirts you see them wearing but actually a complex form of successful parasitic fungus that just look like clothes. Certain subtle enviromental conditions determine color.

Also Orks, like plants, process waste out into the air alongside their reproductive spores. They expel the waste gas and particulate out of small muscular sphincter pumps on their chest (which, coincidently, look just like nipples). This cycle ensures that the fledgling spores have ample fertilizer to ensure proper growth and development, even on harsher worlds.

The "cess pools" spoken of are from rotting squigs, grots and Orks that weren't tough enough to survive. These pools also help fertilize an area for reproduction.

The whole thing is called the "Orkoid Recycling Chloro-Carbon and Oxygen Cycle" or Orc-Coc. C'mon, this is textbook Imperial grade school learning. Did you guys get "left behind"?

Oh, so why do they have butt-cracks you ask? Well, duh, it allows the running motion of the hips to be more fluid.

I bow down to your superiority. Your Bullshido is strrrrrong...

Holy cow! Fenris your bulshido really IS strong lol. Hoently tho the "pooh" coming out of the same pores that vent the spores when they die, would certainly explain why they smell REALLY bad. More so then say someone that just doesnt shower lol

Yeah and it also explains why the models even have nipples, let alone pierced ones.

Orks wear clothes because they believe that they should and the clothes just magicly appears. However, humans can't comprehend this ork logic and see the orks without any clothes on. This is why orks are better in close comabt, they're naked.

They think they should wear clothes so they do. Rule of da red wunz if enough orks believe it then its true, red wunz go fasta and red eyes are more killy. As for the nipples... why not?

Orks can poop. How do you think they orkify emperium statues? They cover it in ork gak. They make a statue of gork or mork with a pile of dung, or go to an enemy statue and toss crap on it.

I forget which book exactly but it was one of ragnar blackmanes books.
They were hiding in some brush outside of an orc encampment when a drunken ork stumbled over to their bush and proceded to piss on them.
So yes they do piss...
As for which book this was I cannot remember but shortly after that happened they made jury rigged disguises of the orks and raced them in their own buggies.
Believe it was the one where the ork warboss would'be wtfpwned ragnar had it not been for the teleporter beacon as well

I have always been under the impression that orkoid species are mammal with a bit of fungus, not fungus with a bit of mammal, and since they need cesspits I assume they digest food and excrete solid waste (and considering thier high-protien diets do this a lot). As they reproduce via spores, I assume they are like action man down below (plastic pants and a trademark lol)

I guess that clothes are a sign of wealth (someone in Levis is typcially better off financially than someone in a postal sack with leg holes) so fashion (particularly among bad moons) is a sign of how rich da ladz are (take flash gitz wearing extravagant hats for example, pointless but shows they are rich) so the richer the ork, the more important it is to show off with decent threads lol

The drops are a crucial part of ork ecolgy. It is the place in the settlement where most of the squigs and fungus come from - supplying food and resources.

There is an ork myth that tells that Nurgle himself once tried to use all this festering decay to turn the orks to chaos. To stop Gork started shouting at him for not being orky enough while Mork, sneaked up and clobberred him and Nurgle fell in to the drops.
All the orks found this very funny and have done ever since.

Orks don't go for long myths.

As for orky clothes, I think the orks wear them to fit in with their mob. While they don't use uniforms and medals to decide who's in charge, the big ork who is in charge may want to show off with trophies, a fancy coat or big spikey hat. I always assumed it was the grots who got bullied into making the clothes.

I think they wear clothes cause they feel cold like every other race.Also for showing off,cause grots make them and terrorizing grots into doing things is the second fundamental part of the Ork way

feralsteel wrote:I forget which book exactly but it was one of ragnar blackmanes books.
They were hiding in some brush outside of an orc encampment when a drunken ork stumbled over to their bush and proceded to piss on them.
So yes they do piss...
As for which book this was I cannot remember but shortly after that happened they made jury rigged disguises of the orks and raced them in their own buggies.
Believe it was the one where the ork warboss would'be wtfpwned ragnar had it not been for the teleporter beacon as well

Ragnar's Claw.